Our team
Management team
LUCIA ZUMARRAGA
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF NEUROPED
Marta Jambrina
Deputy director
maría dolores gonzález
Responsible for clinical psychology
Marta Bolullo
Responsible for Learning Enhancement Unit
Irene Araujo
Responsible for UdiTEA
Monica Zumarraga
RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGEMENT AND HR
Professional areas
Neuropsychology
LUCIA ZUMARRAGA
Neuropsychologist
Lucía is the founder and Director of NeuroPed. A degree in Clinical Psychology from the
Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (2002). She completed her teaching period and Diploma of
Advanced Studies in the Neurosciences programme at UCM.
Lucía has made a
Master's degree in Neurorehabilitation Instituto Guttman (Universidad Autónoma
Barcelona).
She served from 2007 to 2011 in the department of
neuropsychology and research of the Institut Guttmann, participating in projects
research national and european quality of co-researcher. In particular it is relevant
her participation in the design and development of the platform of cognitive rehabilitation NPT
(Neuro Personal Trainer) child. In her formative period she has collaborated with
highly qualified professionals.
Lucia has a great experience in the evaluation and treatment of neuropsychological babies,
children and adolescents with disorders in their neurodevelopment. In her dedication to the
clinical neuropsychology pediatric has worked with children and adolescents with brain damage
congenital and acquired as well as various pathologies of the neurodevelopmental (prematurity,
rare diseases, intellectual disability, and developmental).
She is currently the President of the Madrid Association of Neuropsychology. She is co-author
the assessment of Executive Functions in children ENFEN (TEA Ediciones).
She participates as a guest lecturer and speaker at a multitude of conferences,
and congresses, master's and postgraduate courses. D. in Neuroscience (DEA, in the
Universidad Complutense de Madrid).
At NeuroPed, Lucía has developed a unique and effective treatment methodology
and has managed to lead a team of more than 35 professionals who work in coordination
and where the main focus is on the child and her family.
Marta Jambrina
Neuropsychologist
Marta joined the NeuroPed team in June 2015 to enhance the areas of Neuropsychology and Clinical Psychology. She specializes in coordinating with families and providing behavioral management guidelines.
management behavior.
She currently serves as the deputy director of NeuroPed and is also one of its tutors.
In her role, she is responsible for conducting initial interviews and coordinating with the professionals involved in the child's development, including the medical team, teachers, and other specialists.
Marta holds a degree in Psychology with a pecialization in Neuropsychology from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, obtained in 2007. She later earned a Master's Degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2015.
Madrid (2007). Master in cognitive Neuropsychology from the University Complutense of Madrid
Throughout her professional career, Marta has focused on clinical psychology and
neuropsychology.
She has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults.
She has collaborated on several research projects in psychiatric hospitals, brain injury centers, and in developing guides to support families.
Marta Bolullo
Neuropsychologist
Marta joined the NeuroPed team in March 2017.
She graduated with a degree in Psychology from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2013.
Additionally, she completed a Master's Degree in Cognitive Neuropsychology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2015.
and a Master's in Neuroeducation and Optimization of Capacities at ISEP in 2017.
Marta has completed an internship at the Hospital Universitario La Paz and has experience working in social and healthcare centers with adults.
Currently, she coordinates the Learning Enhancement Unit, which is dedicated to supporting international families in need of assistance.
She has extensive experience in the assessment and rehabilitation of children and adolescents with various neurodevelopmental disorders and in collaborating with parents and teachers involved in their development.
Furthermore, Marta has served as teaching staff and participated in research studies focused on Early Childhood Care.
en el trabajo con padres y profesores involucrados en su desarrollo. Ha colaborado también
como personal docente y participado en estudios de investigación sobre Atención Temprana.
Sonia Quesada
Neuropsychologist
Sonia joined the Neuroped team in September 2017. Graduated in Psychology at Universidad Complutense deMadrid in 2014.
Has been undertaken by the official Master's degree in Psychology from the
Education (2016) and the Master's degree in Neuropsicologia Child (2018) both at the University Complutense of Madrid. Likewise, has completed the master's program in General Psychology
Health at the International University of la Rioja (UNIR).
Sonia has been formed in consultation teams, and departments of educational psychology at several colleges and the foundation Gil Gayarre with children with intellectual disabilities as well as at the Hospital Gregorio Marañón.
Sonia has the authorization to perform the program Super Skills of emotional and social skills, and has completed the introductory course in Model Denver (ESDM, Early Start Denver Model).
In the field of teaching, he has collaborated in the realization of agenda on neurodevelopment emotional for the European University of Madrid and has been involved in studies of
research on Early Care.
Likewise, he has conducted training sessions on
Assessment of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in the COP and participated in the training workshops for Early Attention of the University of the Basque Country. Performs teaching at the Insituto Superior de Estudios Psicológicos (ISEP) in the area of neuroscience.
Sonia has extensive experience in the evaluation and rehabilitation of children and
adolescents with different neurodevelopmental disorders and coordinates the area Early Childhood Intervention.
prácticas externas de NeuroPed.
Irene Araujo
Neuropsychologist
Irene joined NeuroPed in October 2021. Graduated in Psychology at Univesidad Autónoma de Madrid (2014).
Later on she completed the Master's in Cognitive Neuropsychology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and a Masters in General Psychology
Health by the Distance University of Madrid. She obtained the title of Specialist in Disorders of the Autism Spectrum by the National University of Distance Education.
As complementary training has the Level 2 training for the multi-sensory stimulation in people severely affected by ISNA Spain and the introductory level in the Early Start Denver Model. In addition, you have the certification for the application of assessment tests for specific diagnosis of autism, the ADOS-2 and ADI-R.
Likewise, she has training in Therapies and Contextual Therapies in the Third Generation, as well as experience in intervention with children and adolescents under this model.
As professional experience highlights the attention to children and adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems, neuropsychological rehabilitation in children with abnormal neurodevelopment, the attention of people with signs or diagnosis of autism and the
specialization in differential diagnosis within neurodevelopmental disorders.
She is currently the manager of the area of specialized diagnostic and intervention in autism spectrum disorders of NeuroPed, performing functions of coordination with external professionals, coordination of our team and care for the families, as well as
direct care with our patients. Serves children and families in Spanish as well as
in the English language.
She combines her clinical work with training activity in congresses and postgraduate studies, in which she participates as faculty partner.
Iria Meléndez
Neuropsychologist
She holds a Degree in Psychology from the Universidad de Barcelona. She is licensed as a General Health Psychologist and has a Master's in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation from the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.
Additionally, she holds the title of Expert in Clinical Neuropsychology from the Official College of Psychologists of Cataluña and has experience in publishing research articles in high-impact journals and participating in national and international conferences.
She is specialised in therapies contextual or third-generation applied to children, adolescents
and parents (Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment, ACT) at Madrid Institute of Contextual
Psychology (MICPSY).
During her professional career, she has had the opportunity to train
in different contexts and countries, provided support to children and families with diagnoses and problems of emotional variety.
During the time the United States has supported her training at Boston Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, she has deepened her knowledge of Mindfulness-Based Therapy and Compassion-Based Therapy.
Now part of the team of Neuropsychology, Clinical Psychology, and Learning Enhancement Unit (LEU). She coordinates the services of counselling and helping children and
adolescents.
She has designed and implemented workshops for professionals in bilingual or multilingual. Her vocation is psychology, with the objective of providing support during childhood and adolescence to prevent future emotional difficulties in adulthood. She has been working in this field since 2011, and it is now impossible for her to imagine doing any other type of work.
Marta García
Neuropsychologist
Marta is a Graduate in Psychology from the University Camilo José Cela (2017). Has been undertaken by the
The official master's degree in General Psychology Health (2019) and the Master's degree in Assessment and Neuropsychological Rehabilitation (2020) both at the University Camilo José Cela.
Likewise, he has made the
Postgraduate diploma in Early childhood at the Institute of Psychological Studies, ISEP (2020)
and has completed the introductory course in Model Denver (ESDM, Early Start Denver Model)
Marta has held internships in the departments of counseling and family therapy. She began to be a part of NeuroPed during summer camps 2020 at
practices and continued to collaborate with the centre making interventions at home. Is
formally joined the team in September 2021.
Currently, Marta has extensive experience in the assessment and rehabilitation of children and
adolescents with different neurodevelopmental disorders and coordinates the area Early Childhood Intervention.
prácticas externas de NeuroPed.
Isabel Salmerón
Neuropsychologist
Isabel is a graduate in Psychology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She completed a master's degree in General Psychology, Health, and Clinical Neuropsychology at Universidad de Deusto.
After completing her master's degree, Isabel began working in the field of brain damage in adults and the elderly.
However, due to her strong interest in the youth population, she decided to pursue training in Early Care and Neurodevelopment.
Since then, she has started working with children and adolescents from a neuropsychological perspective. To enhance her knowledge in the clinical area, particularly due to the increasing demand for psychological support, he has trained in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for children, adolescents, and their parents.
Paula kremer
Neuropsychologist
Paula studied Psychology with a specialty in Neuropsychology at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
She is a General Health Psychologist through the Universidad Camilo José Cela and a Neuropsychologist by the
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.
She is also formed more specifically in
Neuropsychological Rehabilitation after Brain Damage and in Child Neuropsychology.
Paula has worked in units of neurodegenerative diseases and in associations of acquired brain damage, both with adults and with
children and adolescents, and has experience with different neurodevelopmental disorders,
especially with children and young
adults with 22q11 syndrome.
Currently, Paula is part of the neuropsychology team at NeuroPed in the Learning Enhancement Unit (LEU), working with children and adolescents in both Spanish and
English.
MARINA MARTÍN
Neuropsychologist
A graduate in Psychology and Criminology at the Universidad Pontificia de Comillas in 2021. Masters Psychology General Health at the Universidad Villanueva 2023 and Master's degree in Neuropsychology at Universidad International de Valencia.
She has always been passionate about working with children, but her love for the child neuropsychology began taking advantage of her experience studying in the United States for seven years to give private lessons of English conversation to children with learning difficulties
Formed in the Foundation ANAR in psychological intervention in emergency situations. She has done internship in school counseling and a centre for neuroscience applied to education, where she started to gain experience in the evaluation and rehabilitation of children and adolescents with different neurodevelopmental disorders.
Clinical psychology
maría dolores gonzález
clinical psychology
maria jesus zafra
clinical psychology
Speech therapy
Cintia Sanchez
Speech therapy
Cintia joined the team Neuroped in February 2020. Degree in Speech therapy at the University of Castilla La Mancha in the year 2018. Has been undertaken by the Official Master's degree in Intervention Speech at the University Complutense of Madrid (2019).
Likewise, he has studied the Master's degree in Orofacial Motor function by the University of Vic – Central University of Catalonia (2023). You also have the qualification of the Graduate program in Orofacial Motor function by the IEPAP.
It holds the title of Expert in Dyslexia and Lectoescritur (2022). Cintia has made its practices
in different contexts, such as in the Central Hospital of the Defense Gómez Ulla and in different centers of neurodevelopment in children.
Currently, she has extensive experience in the evaluation and rehabilitation of children and adolescents with various disorders of the communication, oral and written language, speech, and alterations in motor functions and orofacial.
He has collaborated in research
related to the Specific Disorder of Language (TEL) and the deficit Disorder
attention hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). In addition, it engages in studies of early Care and in the validation of different tests of neurodevelopment and oral language.
He works as a tutor of practices of students of the practices of the degree of speech from different universities and participates in the training workshops of the University of the Basque Country on the assessment and intervention of speech and language.
He also participates with the company Pearson in the validation and scaling of the test of language CELF -5 Preschool and the test of infant development Bayley IV, as well as in the Spanish adaptation of the Test of receptive vocabulary Peabody 5
(PPVT-5) and the Test of vocabulary expressive – 3 (EVT-3).
AINARA CANTON
Speech therapy
Ainara joined the team NeuroPed in January 2023. Graduated in Speech therapy (2021), specialized in brain damage, by the Complutense University of Madrid and Graduated in Psychology (2021), specializing in addictions, from the Complutense University of Madrid. Ainara is bilingual in Spanish and English, after receiving a bilingual education from an early age, studying in the united States during baccalaureate managed to achieve a high level of English both written and spoken. Thanks to this, it has the Certificate of Cambridge English C1 Advanced (Reading and writing) and C2 Profiency (Spoken).
Due to the double degree, Ainara has been able to make practices in different contexts hospital and clinical with both adult and infant populations. This has contributed a vast knowledge of the language, as a cognitive process, alterations possible in the communication, rehabilitation, and assessment. It has also been able to participate in a research project on the Diversity of learning for inclusion and collaborative learning in the University Complutense of Madrid.
It currently holds an Expert in Dyslexia and Literacy (2022) and a Master's degree in Myofunctional Therapy (2023) at the Higher Institute of Psychological Studies. He has also completed the Introductory Course of the Model Denver (ESDM, Early Start Denver Model for intervention with children on the autism spectrum. In addition is the partner at Pearson for the validation and scaling of the test CELF -5 Preschool, and for the Spanish adaptation of the Test of receptive vocabulary Peabody 5 (PPVT-5) and the Test of vocabulary expressive – 3 (EVT-3).
Ainara is part of the equipment of Speech and Learning Enhancement Unit (LEU) performing the assessment and treatment of children and adolescents in both Spanish and English
Óscar se unió al equipo de NeuroPed en septiembre de 2023 para entrar en el área de Logopedia y de LEU. Especializado en la comunicación e interacción con personas diversas. Graduado en Logopedia y en Psicología por la Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
Este ha estado becado en la Unidad de Logopedia de la UCM y ha desarrollado su vida profesional con población infanto-juvenil tanto en clínicas cómo en colegios de educación especial (Colegio Leo Kanner, Colegio Estudio 3).
Junto con todo ello, ha colaborado con diferentes proyectos de investigación (validación de pruebas de evaluación para bebés con TEA y discriminación interseccional en mujeres en situación sin hogar) en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y en la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.
Vinculado con organizaciones de diversidad funcional como Plena Inclusión, Afanias o APNA, ha trabajado con personas con TEA, con discapacidad intelectual y discapacidad motora entre otros.
Además, cómo psicólogo tiene formación en el ámbito de la psicología clínica, de la psicología positiva, inteligencia emocional y en adicciones.
Physical therapy neurological
Vanessa Oquina
Physical Therapy Neurological
Vanessa joined the team Neuroped in May 2017. Diploma in Physiotherapy at the European University of Madrid (2004), with a Postgraduate degree in
Neurofisioterapia child (2005) and an Expert in physical therapy Neurological Child and Adult.
In addition, it also holds the certification in Therapy Restrictive Pediatric (Constraint Induced
Therapy: Pediatric Applications-CIT) and in the application of the scale Bayley-III, being a collaborator in the Spanish adaptation of the battery of infant development Bayley-IV.
As an expert in physical therapy Neurological after more than 15 years of experience, he has developed his professional career in the field of neurorehabilitation, with children and adolescents with acquired brain damage and congenital, always linked to the world of neurodevelopmental children and their families.
Vanessa works as a tutor of the practices of the degree of physical therapy from the university and the Master of physical therapy Pediatric, University San Pablo CEU.
He has also collaborated in the creation of the agenda of Neurodevelopmental Engine to the
European university of Madrid and participates in the training workshops of the University in the Country
Basque in the development sensorimotor.
Maria Martinez-OLAGÜE
Physiotherapy Neurological
Mary is a Graduate in Physiotherapy from the University of San Pablo CEU (2020), earning the special Award at the End of the Race for the academic merits achieved during the Degree. Made the Official Master's degree in Physiotherapy in Pediatrics at the University of San Pablo CEU
(2021).
Has specific training in intensive therapies using the Method NIE (Neurorehabilitation intensive specialized) taught by Nipace, in the treatment and assessment of gait disturbances in childhood, infant massage, and pilates therapeutic.
He is currently pursuing the Master's degree in Orthopedic Children. In addition, he works as associate professor of the Degree of physical therapy in the San Pablo CEU University in the subject of Pathology and Physiotherapy in Pediatrics, overseeing stays
clinical and supervised work of end-of-grade.
Mary began to form part of NeuroPed during the camps in the summer of 2019, when you perform some rooms voluntary clinics and formally joined the team in July of 2020. He has done research stays clinics in many locations, such as Hospital Care
Palliative Lagoon in pediatric palliative care ,the Center of Attention Early Carolina
Juzado and MITAI.
He has also worked at the centers AndaConmigo. Your main motivation is to increase the child's chances neurological to experience the world and to provide you with the best possible quality of life using those
tools with more scientific evidence as are intensive treatments.
Occupational therapy
Paula Hernan
Occupational therapy
Paula joined the NeuroPed in April 2022. Graduated in Occupational Therapy at Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 2016 and later did a Masters in Neurorehabilitation at Instituto Superior de Estudios Psicológicos.
She has also completed training in Early Care and is formed in various models and approaches to intervention and Sensory Integration of Ayres, motor Control task-oriented, multi-sensory stimulation and training in ASD.
She has developed her professional experience working with older people, adults with acquired brain injury as well as with young people and adults with mental health problems, combining her work with volunteer work with children at risk of social exclusion.
ALICIA REQUENA
Occupational Therapy
Psychiatry
Dr. Juan José Carballo Belloso is a Graduate in Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid. Doctor Europeus by the Autonomous University of Madrid.
Specialist in Psychiatry by the University Hospital Puerta de Hierro. A Fellow in Child Psychiatry and Adolescent by the Columbia University in New York city through the scholarship of Advanced Training of the Fundación Alicia Koplowitz.
Their clinical activity has focused on the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of psychiatric disorders of childhood-onset and adolescence, with special interest in the Disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depressive Disorders and Anxiety Disorders.
Dr. Carballo attends in Spanish and in English.
Administration and support
Monica Zumarraga
Administration and support
EVA VINCENT
ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
Maria Cruz VICENTE
ADMINISTRATION AND SUPPORT
